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1. Library Resource

   

   Uganda Land Act

   January, 1998

   Uganda

   Forest Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment
2. Library Resource

   

   Land privatisation, security of tenure and agricultural production : the Ugandan experience

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   November, 1997

   Uganda

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land policies

   land rights

   land tenure

   land tenure

   land tenure systems
3. Library Resource

   

   Private and communal property rights in rangeland and forests in Uganda

   January, 1998

   Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land

   land tenure

   property rights

   common property

   property

   The present land tenure situation in Uganda is essentially the result of four factors: customary tenure practices, the mailo tenure system introduced under the British colonial administration, the Land Reform Decree passed by Idi Amin’s government in 1975, and the disrupting social order under the Amin regime and during the period following its downfall. The impacts of the Land Reform Decree and civil disobedience have led to the degradation of common property resources, particularly forest areas and pastures.

4. Library Resource

   

   State of the World's Forests (SOFO)

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 1997

   Angola, Sudan, Rwanda, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, Malawi, Comoros, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Uganda, Somalia, Gabon, Botswana, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Kenya

   Forest Tenure

   forestry

   natural resources management

   The State of the World's Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. The purpose of the publication is to provide current, reliable and policy-relevant information to policy-makers, foresters and other natural resource managers, academics, forest industry and civil society.

5. Library Resource

   

   Population pressure, land tenure, and tree resource management in Uganda

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   December, 1997

   Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

   This study uses aerial photographs and survey data from sixty four parishes in east-central Uganda to identify the factors affecting conversion of woodlands and traditional grazing areas to agriculture. Regression analysis shows that customary land tenure institutions, greater population pressure and poor access to markets are significant causes of land conversion to agriculture, and hence to loss of trees. Private ownership of converted land promotes greater integration of trees and crops and leads to the highest density of trees on agricultural land.